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A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY

ON

PROBABILITIES.

BY

PIERRE SIMON, Marquis de LAPLACE.


TRANSLATED FROM THE SIXTH FRENCH EDITION

by

FREDERICK WILSON TRUSCOTT, Ph.D. (Harv.),
Professor of Germanic Languages in the West Virginia University,

and

FREDERICK LINCOLN EMORY, M.E. (Wor. Poly. Inst.),
Professor of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics in the West Virginia
University: Mem. Amer, Soc. Mech, Eng.


FIRST EDITION.
FIRST THOUSAND.


NEW YORK:
JOHN WILEY & SONS.
London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited.
1902.